Species Eurymeloides adspersa (Signoret, 1850)

Eurymeloides adspersa (Signoret), adult.

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurymela adspersa Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [510].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (Signoret collection), New Holland.

Generic Combinations

• Eurymeloides adspersa (Signoret, 1850). —
  Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. Leafhoppers and their natural enemies. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1(9): 271-479 [354]

Introduction

This species is not well represented in collections. It has been recorded from several localities in SE Australia from the Sydney basin in New South Wales to Tasmania. Evans (1966) also records it from New Guinea.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: gregarious, phloem feeder.

Diagnosis

Entièrement d'un brun noirâtre, aspergé de petites macules d'un blanc jaunâtre, avec les bords de lécusson et des élytres rougeâtres. Chaperon noir, bordé de jaune; joues jaunâtres, mélangées de brun. Poitrine noire. Abdomen noir en dessus et jaune en dessous: excepté l'appareil sexuel qui est noir. Pattes, cuisses jaunâtres dans leur partie supérieure et noires à la partie inférieure. Tibias noirâtres, mêlés de jaune; les postérieurs présentent un grand nombre d'épines, dont la base , au point d'insertion, est blanchâtre: ce qui donne un aspect ponctué aux pattes. Long. 0,010. (Signoret 1850).

Head, pronotum and scutellum black, mottled with reddish brown and yellow; eyes greyish brown. Tegmen black with yeliowsh and whitish irregular markings arranged in the form of three indistinct fasciae; the claval area dotted with white spots. Legs, coxae and femora pale brown; tibiae dark brown with yellowish spots; hind tibiae with three spurs. Abdomen ventral surface yellow; genital segment very dark brown. Length 9 mm (Evans 1933).

ID Keys

Evans 1966: 62

Diagnosis References

Evans, J.W. 1933. A revision of the Eurymelini (Homoptera: Bythoscopidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 73-90 [87]

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [62]

Signoret, V.A. 1850. Notice sur le groupe des Eurymélides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 8: 497-513 [510]

General References

Evans, J.W. 1966. The leafhoppers and froghoppers of Australia and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 12: 1-347 [64]

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